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No. 6I3,335. Patented Nov. I, |898. A. R. TIFFANY.

KNUCKDOWN BASKET.

(Application filed Nov. 13, 1897.)

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

ALBERT R. TIFFANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANK H. BISSELL, OF SAME PLACE.

KNOCKDOWN BASKET.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,335, dated November 1, 1898.

Application filed November 13,1897. Serial No. 658,378. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT R. TIFFANY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knockdown Baskets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to a basket of the knockdown type, and in such connection it relates to the construction of the basket and particular arrangement of the parts thereof, so that when brought into an operative and locked position for use the same will be so supported against accidental or other displacement.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a knockdown basket which is compact when folded and the bottom is folded in between the sides and ends thereof, and the saine consisting of a body composed of a series of rectangular panels flexibly united by Wires and adapted to fold flat when the basket is not in use, and the said basket having a solid bottom hinged to the side panels'of the basket-body and having three-sided ends, the said bottom adapted to expand the said baskot-body and to lock the panels into substantially vertical position with respect to the said bottom.

My invention consists of a knockdown basket constructed and arranged as hereinafter described and claimed.

The nature and scope of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which`` Figure 1 is an isometric perspective view of a knockdown basket embodying the particular features of my present invention in a folded or knockdown condition. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line a: a: of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the basket in an operative position, showing the bail in connection with the sides of the basket. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the basket of my invention with the bail clipped and seated to the sides of the same. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional andV end elevational view of one of the panels of the sides of the basket andbottom, showing the hinge or pivot connection of the bottom with the embracingi wires of the sides of the basket. Fig. 6 is a transverse sectional view through the clip and two companion panels of the sides of the basket, showing the mode of clipping or securing l 'arms of the bail; and Fig. 10 is a vertical sectional view of the clip of Fig. 6, showing the shape of the face thereof and the engagement of the same with the arms of the bail when said clip is secured to operative position in connection with the arms of said bail and sides of the basket.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the basket, having the respective oblong sides a and a merging into the tapering three-sided ends a2, d3, and a4. The sides and ends of the basket are formed of a series of panels a5, notched, recessed, or odset at a6 and 0.7 on each side, so that companion panels will provide, when assembled, oblong longitudinal openings a8 and 0,9 at the top and bottom thereof for the reception of the twists b of the wires b and b2, embracing the panels on the back and front of the same throughout the sides and ends of the basket in polygonal form, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 4. The panels are adapted to receive printed or other matter on the faces or fronts of the same, as desired. On the back of certain of the panels a5, constituting the sides f the basket, the wires b2, for example, are bent inward from the back of certain of said panels at b3 and b4 to forln one element or member of a hinge connection c, the other element or member being staples d, embracing said wires b2 and introduced into a polygonal bottom D, folding in between the flexible panels o5 of the basket in its knockdown condition, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and when opened out to expand the basket-body and to lock the panels into substantially vertical position with respect to the saidbottom rest'- ing upon cleats suitably fastened to the re= spective sides of the basket.

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It may be here remarked that by reason of the polygonal form of the basket, as well as the bottom thereof, when the latter is once caused to assume a position for use it will be maintained in sueh position against displacement.

Eis an inverted- U -shaped bail clipped and seated to the sides of the basket by means of a elipf, provided with barbs orprongs f and lo f2 and lugs or wings]c3 and f4, the prongs or clip f in the lower portion is made slightly tapering, so as to engage the surface of the arms of the bail E, as illustrated in Fig. 10, to prevent possible displacement or Withdrawalof the said bail from its seatingclips g, hereinabove explained.

It will be observed that the basket may be used in either form shown in Fig. 1 by being broughtinto an operative and locked position from a knockdown one, as illustrated, Without a bail, or, as illustrated in Fig. 4, provided with bails secured into the sides of the basket, as hereinbefore described.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a knockdown basket, comprising a body consisting of a series of rectangular panels flexibly united by wires and adapted to fold Hat when the basket is not in use, a solid bottom hinged to the side panels of the basket-body and having three-sided ends, said bottom adapted to expand the basket-body and to lock the panels into substantially vertical position with respect to said bottom, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT R. TIFFANY.

Witnesses:

II. S. FENEEDING, C. N. GREER. 

